I just feel called to keep working on my writing. I have a children’s book that is close to being done and will join my first published book Bare Nipples.

Is a children’s book easy to write? I can say emphatically NO!! I thought it would be, but I have learned in this process that nothing worth anything is easy. I have dedicated so much time and thought to this little girl —who in some respects is mini me—but then needs her own identity. The healing and the exploration of this has been intensely humbling and yet I have learned that I have the grit and perseverance to take it to the end. Even though it barely looks like the initial book. I threw the kitchen sink at it. I wanted to cover every topic in this one book and call it done.

Gentle constructive input along the way revealed that attention spans of kids is so much less than I think it is and I have to be better at being pithy. At one point I had maybe 40 pages and was told I could cut it down by 5/6ths and still it would be long. What?? I couldn’t bare to part with much of what I wanted to share, but there I was… letting pages fall to the ground and a friend then saying—ahhh…. now I can breathe and so can your little girl. But… it feels bare—naked. Am I really saying anything anymore?

Gabby

I guess it can reflect parts of my outer life—the desire to hold on; to speak more than I need to. No wonder I am tired 🙂

So look for a sweet short children’s book coming out in the next few months!!! I am illustrating it too because as much as I wanted to hand that off to someone…… it keeps coming back to me as if I am supposed to do it.

Stay tuned!